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Our email only plans have arrived making it easier than ever to get your custom email address up and running within minutes. You have your own domain name now it’s time to put it to use. For €9.99 a year (less than a euro a month) we will give you access to our shiny new […]

We love the internet. We really do. But as we’ve touched on more than once in the past, there is an underside which is far from pleasant. And as a service provider we have no interest in enabling cybercrime or assisting actively (or passively) with serious crimes. However, we also are very conscious of the […]

Cloud. It’s been the buzzword du jour for a couple of years now. Everyone wants “cloud”, or so they’re led to believe. And there are a lot of different services out there that are marketed as cloud services. But what exactly is a cloud platform that you really want? How can you combine the technology […]

Paul and I will be attending the Odin Summit in Seattle next week. Odin is the new brand name for Parallels, which is the software platform we use to run most of our hosting operations. The event, which is held every year usually in a different location, is a good opportunity for us to get […]

Saturday last saw myself and colleague Justyna attend the inaugural Irish Parenting Blog Awards in our capital city, Dublin. A night of networking, trending, (the #IPBAWARDS were trending on Twitter!) and excitement was had by all. It was a testament to the organizers how professionally the awards ceremony were run, and of course Blacknight were proud […]

Back in January of this year I attended and spoke at the newest of the domain name industry events – NamesCon. The first edition was relatively small, by US standards, but still had several hundred attendees. The range of people both attending and speaking was impressively diverse, so I was interested to see where they […]

Christmas. It’s that one time of the year when most people put their feet up and relax for at least one or two days. It’s also a time when a lot of businesses shutdown for up to two weeks. While the big day is still a couple of weeks off being able to enjoy it […]

Last week the 9th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first IGF meeting for me, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. As regulars of this blog probably know, I tend to spend quite a bit of my time embroiled in internet governance and policy related matters. […]

Earlier this year we officially opened our new data centre at our Carlow headquarters. While the data centre opening is obviously an important and crucial development for us, it’s but one of many. A lot of our staff work behind the scenes. You’ll probably never hear their names and it’s unlikely that you’ll run into […]

If you’re a CloudFlare user then we’ve got some news for you. We now have mod_cloudflare installed on all our Linux web servers. What does this mean? Why should you care? If you’re using CloudFlare on your site then as far as the outside world is concerned your site appears to be hosted by them. […]

Captain’s Log stardate … oh wait! Sometimes you can get a bit carried away with graphics for blog posts. However, this is a pretty big announcement for us and we’re pretty excited for what it means for us and for you, our customers. We’re pleased to announce the arrival of our latest linux shared web […]

Earlier this year, more than 162,000 unsuspecting legitimate WordPress websites were used for DDoS attacks within a few hours. The Problem Attackers abused the WordPress pingback feature allowing websites to cross-reference blog posts. By sending hundreds of spoofed requests per second to the /xmlrpc.php file making these requests appear to come from the target site, […]